Liability for Medical Debts

By
Edelman Combs Latturner & Goodwin LLC
|July 20, 2018

Question: What’s my next step if I got served for a hospital bill
that I settled before by giving them the Medicaid card number?
I am being sued about a hospital bill that was not paid for. The bill
is for my daughter, who at the time did not have insurance because I applied
for Medicaid and it was still in the process of being approved. I got
a bill once and called the number to give them the Medicaid card number
since they go retro three months. That was the last I’ve heard about
this bill until now. Now that I got served with court papers, I need to
know what I should do next. If it’s the bill that needs to be paid
for, then I can do that. It’s just that I haven’t heard or
received anything before that.

Answer: If your daughter had Medicaid and the hospital was informed of
that fact, you should not be liable for any amounts which Medicaid would
have paid.

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